element

Glass

Elements · Colors & materials

Fused silica made clear or colored for vessels and windows. Not crystal as a gem word, and not obsidian as volcanic glass alone.

Roman religion

  • Glass appears in Roman religion.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats glass among the worked materials and vessels of Roman learning. A named glass craft in that encyclopedia, not rock-crystal as a cold stone and not a Vitruvius mint.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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